Quickfire Blog Post #1 -Victoria Worrall

* Post 3 links to exemplar transdisciplinary collectives/labs/companies. Write one sentence explaining what is unique about each linked entity.http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/about/ This lab is particularly and uniquely focused on analyzing and shaping new media.http://www.media.mit.edu/about The MIT Media Lab encourages wildly different fields to collaborate and to ask questions not yet asked.http://www.imtc.gatech.edu/ This is a unique lab because although it is connected to Georgia Tech, it also has non academic clients; this is combining both academia and industry.

* Post 3 links to exemplar transdisciplinary projects. Write one sentence explaining what is unique about each linked entity.http://youarehere.cc/ This project combines statistics, computer science and design in order to display statistics about cities in a visually pleasing and unique way.http://imtc.gatech.edu/work/span This project combines medical knowledge with app making in order to uniquely improve the social lives of teens with brain injury.https://www.fitbit.com/ This product is extremely profitable and combines the health fields, computer engineering, data visualization, social sciences and computer science.